While the outward plot of The Idiot is about Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, and her navigation of her freshman year at Harvard, it’s really about words and how language shapes our experience of the world. And as a person who spends most of my days thinking about, editing, and writing words, this was absolute and irresistible cat nip.The Idiot is a creed for the thoughtful and the introspective. It is an exploration for those curious about the construct of language. It is a novel for novelists. Continue Reading

Girl with a Pearl Earring is a quiet, introspective, historical novel inspired by the famous painter Johannes Vermeer and yet, with all its subtlety, this book elicited more emotion from me than any other…

Creepy and propulsive, The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney reads like a modern-day haunted-house story. But instead of rickety staircases and creaking attics, there are technology-controlled lights and motion-activated stovetops. And instead of ghosts,…

The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer checks all of my favorite literary boxes: beautiful, easily consumable writing; flawed characters; and a healthy amount of introspection and nostalgia. When all these elements combine with the plot…

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